Solid Nashville

solid aims to improve the future of the music industry by strengthening its professional relationships and educating its future executives while serving the community. in the summer of 1996, a small group of young music industry professionals recognized the need for an organization that would directly address the issues they faced on music row. after a year’s worth of backyard brainstorming sessions, this original group of friends gradually and deliberately defined the parameters for the society of leaders in development (solid) their vision? to develop a community for its membership that combined the social networking of the slugs or the young turks with the community service of hands on nashville and the educational opportunities of leadership music, the recording academy or the cma. above all, it needed to be accessible to entry and mid-level industry professionals who may not have the resources or opportunities to belong to other organizations. on february 15, 2000, solid hosted